I still own a first gen TV. It hasn’t been plugged in in at least 5 years. This decision won’t have any affect on me.
As was was mentioned earlier, it’s unlikely to bother the majority of people. I’m not even sure it could handle HD content. It’s been a long time since I’ve used it but I don’t think it supported iTunes streaming. If I wanted to watch a movie from my iTunes library I had to sync that movie to the TV first, which tended to be slow. I had to start the sync well before I planned to actually watch the movie. (My memory may be off. It’s possible it could stream movies from iTunes but my network just sucked and I just went with the syncing option)
I think I stored my music on it as well (mine has a 40 GB hard drive) so playing music from it to the stereo was actually kind of nice.
Still, this change doesn’t bother me. I have 3 other TVs that are working fine.
720p at 23.976 frames per second. It can stream from an iTunes library fine.
My 1G AppleTV is in constant use. But I sure wish I could figure out why I can't sync it across the local wifi network. It says it is connected, but doesn't show up in iTunes to sync content. Always seems to take an ethernet cable. Strange.
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